The 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's contentious landing in Australia ... by AFP Follow On April 29, 1770, Captain Cook sailed the Endeavour into Botany Bay -- called Kamay in the local ...

The river was named after British Explorer James Cook after he landed in Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed possession for the UK of Australia's east coast. An Aboriginal partnership group is ...

The local Aboriginal people refer to Botany Bay as Gamay, and the first interaction between Europeans and Aboriginal people here was not positive. In April 1770, Captain Cook led a landing party ...

Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer Captain James Cook and his landing party when they first ... set foot in Australia on a beach at Botany Bay in Sydney's south, where he and his crew's ...

Four Aboriginal spears taken by Captain James Cook when he landed in Botany Bay in 1770 are to be returned to the descendants of the original peoples.